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1. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
5. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
11. Informal terms for a mother.
15. Moderate to inferior in quality.
16. Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.
17. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
18. A standard or model or pattern regarded as typical.
19. Away from the mouth or oral region.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. A worker who is hired to perform a job.
23. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
28. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
30. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
31. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
35. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
37. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces.
40. Ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles.
43. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
45. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
46. A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
50. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
51. A disease of poultry.
52. (of horses) Disabled in the feet or legs.
56. Herbs, shrubs and trees.
58. Imperial moths.
59. A public promotion of some product or service.
61. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
62. Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance.
64. A Hindu prince or king in India.
66. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
73. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
75. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
76. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
79. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
80. Tag the base runner to get him out.
81. Herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia cultivated for their flowers.
82. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. Transient cessation of respiration.
2. Apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel).
3. The dead body of a human being.
4. Having no arms.
5. Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long.
6. A populous province in northeastern China.
7. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
8. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. An imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity.
11. A master's degree in fine arts.
12. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
13. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
14. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
22. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. A common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete.
32. A stock exchange in New York.
33. The feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state.
34. The vast grassy plains of northern Argentina.
36. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
38. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
39. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
41. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
42. Fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity.
44. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
48. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
49. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
53. State clearly.
54. Enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds.
55. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
57. Someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share.
60. Russian country house.
63. Sour or bitter in taste.
65. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
68. Type genus of the Amiidae.
69. South African term for `boss'.
70. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
72. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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